Licence to Kill & the Right to Surv

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Subject: Licence to Kill & the Right to Survive

The junta has a license to kill. They are above the law. Only the
appearance of civiled conduct allows them to interact with the
world outside their borders. And they have now closed the borders!
Extraordinary logic, really. How extraordinary, how full of fear they
are when it is clear that "Johnny" is not just one man, but thousands of
men, thousands of fighters, many of them who have embraced the spirit of
non violence but who have been driven to defend themselves after having
been pushed beyond the limits of survival. One must after all survive if
non violence is to be the goal. Of course "violence breeds violence" but
self defense is another issue entirely.

And that is what the junta has to fear. There are thousands of "Johnnys"
in the field, and there will be thousands more. And when the day comes
for all of them to throw down their weapons and bow to their leader of
peace and non violence, that will be the day when the world can rejoice. 

But you know that they will not renounce their right of self defense,
the right to survive.

All of these men should be protected, and sheltered in safe houses and 
through underground networks, and they are. 

The revolutions of the twentieth century have been a turning point in
the spirit of man. And now we are at the brink of a new era for the
millenium. 

And the spirit of freedom is very much alive and well in Burma, and it
will defend itself against force and against the generals of the junta.

People seem sometimes to get it all backwards, and then mixed up in
their minds. It does not take a plane to highjack, or a bomb to explode
or an embassy to hold the world spellbound. It takes a junta, a
dictator, an unlicenced right to kill. And when its gone, its over.

dawn star